Don Juan

by Lord Byron

Credits: Lord Byron (author)

Summary

Byron's unfinished epic satire follows the young Don Juan from his Spanish boyhood through shipwreck, a Greek island, a Turkish harem, the Russian court and an English country house, with the narrator's digressions on poets, politics and love. This edition gives sixteen cantos and the fragment of the seventeenth. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur. This book contains scenes of violence as its author wrote them.

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Chapters (18)

  1. 1. Dedication
  2. 2. Canto the First
  3. 3. Canto the Second
  4. 4. Canto the Third
  5. 5. Canto the Fourth
  6. 6. Canto the Fifth
  7. 7. Canto the Sixth
  8. 8. Canto the Seventh
  9. 9. Canto the Eighth
  10. 10. Canto the Ninth
  11. 11. Canto the Tenth
  12. 12. Canto the Eleventh
  13. 13. Canto the Twelfth
  14. 14. Canto the Thirteenth
  15. 15. Canto the Fourteenth
  16. 16. Canto the Fifteenth
  17. 17. Canto the Sixteenth
  18. 18. Canto the Seventeenth

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